In the beginning... Time, planets and life.

I’m trying to figure out the probability of various things - life in the universe is one. Here’s how I see it, but I have plenty of questions and
even more blanks to fill in, so please be my guest.

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The universe as we know it began its inflation very very quickly. Its contents were approx 98% helium, hydrogen and their isotopes, along with trace
elements of other gases like lithium. No ‘metals’ or solids, or any elements to make them. The universe, as far as we know, continues to expand
even to this day.

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Gas starts to coalesce into massive ‘clouds’ and the first protostars are born. Estimates are several hundred million to several hundred billion
of these giant gas cloud clusters are present in the universe.

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The first true stars are formed from the protostars. These first stars are enormous - I mean really big! Even the smallest are estimated to be several
hundred thousand times the mass of our star, while many are several million times the mass. Most of the gas in each of the clusters is formed into
these massive stars. There are no planets around them - remember the only elements that exist in the universe are gaseous. They are extremely hot and
extremely bright, and this combination makes them very short-lived.

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The first supernovae occur. Vast explosions that not only spread gas, but also create the first ‘metals’ - elements heavier than hydrogen and
helium. As these stars were so big we also see the first black holes. You could conveniently call them supermassive black holes.

Question 1: Are these first black holes the very same supermassive black holes we see in the centre of large galaxies like our own Milky Way?

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By now all or the vast majority of these original stars have gone supernova. The detritus have formed protogalaxies, each now forming many
proportionally smaller stars within them. These second-generation stars still do not have enough variation and variety of elements to form solid-mass
planets.

Question 2: How many supernova either across the universe or locally within galaxy regions will it take to produce enough variety of elements to
produce the solid mass to create rocky planets?

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Protogalaxy clusters are now typically on their 4th or 5th supernova generations and galaxial regions are more defined into something resembling what
we would recognise now.

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Enough solid matter is present in the universe to produce rocky planets around stars, including our own solar system. Earth is born.

Question 3: Is 5.5 billion years enough time to produce the variety of elements required to produce the matter to statistically create more than one
planet to support advanced multicellular life?

You missed out on how do these expanding gasses exist in the first place? And at the perfect pressure? Any other small change and hydrogen doesn't
exist. So how can you say these things existed in the beginning of the universe?

If everything was rushing out so quickly at first and super dense, then time would’ve been distorted, like the idea in “Interstellar.” So
timing is kinda hard, I would say... A lot of the stuff probably happened in like a super-fast/slow mode... or it’s all a program, like the Matrix.

honestly, i think its infinite. the universe and stuff.. if we're involving time and other stuff.. that means that gives rise to possibilities;
different timelines, different lives we already lived.. but i mean i could be wrong.

Good question. If the universe is infinite, then how does it expand beyond that???

It's expanding into the void left behind by the previous universe, in an infinite cycle of expansion and contraction. Or the reality we perceive is
a simulation and the universe is simply programmed that way.🙃

Very close to the very beginning, scientists think, there were black holes. These black holes, which astronomers have never directly detected,
didn't form in the usual way: the explosive collapse of a big, dying star into its own gravity well. The matter in these black holes, researchers
believe, wasn't crushed into a singularity by the last gasps of an old star. Indeed, back then, in the first 1 billion or so years of the universe,
there were no old stars. Instead, there were huge clouds of matter, filling space, seeding the earliest galaxies. Some of that matter, researchers
believe, clumped together more tightly, though, collapsing into its own gravity well just like old stars later did as the universe aged. Those
collapses, researchers believe, seeded supermassive black holes that had no previous life as stars. Astronomers call these singularities "direct
collapse black holes" (DCBHs).

The problem with this theory, though, is that nobody has ever found one. [The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics]

But that could change. A new paper from the Georgia Institute of Technology published Sept. 10 in the journal Nature Astronomyproposes that the
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which NASA intends to launch at some point in the next several years, should be sensitive enough to detect a galaxy
containing a black hole from this ancient period of the universe's history. And the new study proposes a set of signatures that could be used to
identify a DCBH-hosting galaxy.

Also. The huge gas stars/galaxies in the early part of the universe would have been blue in colour.

They were formed from hydrogen. Which was apparently spread evenly across the universe at one point. The molecules were brought together when the
forces emerged. (From a doc i watched from BBC. Said gravity brought the hydrogen atoms together) although. I think the electromagnetic force is what
brings atoms together. Gravity holds mass together. Might be wrong. Please correct me if i am.

That's why. When searching for the oldest stars/galaxies. They look for targets with little or no iron in them.

You forgot to mention temperature.

The first 180,000 years of the universe was billions of degrees. But cooled down to 6000 k during this time. Which allowed the forces and particles to
create mass.

We really need the JWT in space asap. Hopefully. It will provide many answers.

Question 3: Is 5.5 billion years enough time to produce the variety of elements required to produce the matter to statistically create more than one
planet to support advanced multicellular life?

I just dont get how time produces elements, how does that work

and No, this is not a religious post, please put away your swords.

Time doesn’t produce mass, supernovae do. Billions or more likely, many trillions of stars had to die to create even the visible mass we calculate
in our universe. It would have taken many billions of big supernova just to create Earth.

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